KC went to Sparky’s and he saw her, sitting underneath that Red Stripe sign.
Girls like that don’t show up much at Sparky’s Bar & Grill, and he said right then and there, “I’m gonna make her mine.”
It won’t be easy, but nothing ever is that’s worth your time.
He may go home alone tonight, but it won’t be from lack of trying.

KC pulled his chair up to her table, he pulled every trick out of his bag.
1st he asked her, “What’s your favorite color?”
Her smile lit up her face, & she said, “I like plaid.”
It won’t be easy, but nothing ever is that’s worth your time.
He may go home alone tonight, but it won’t be from lack of trying.

What’s it gonna take for him to somehow break the ice?
How’s he gonna make this work?
Only getting once chance, so he’d better get it right.
If he messes up he’s going home alone tonight.

Turns out she likes going to the ballet. Wrestlemania is more his style.
She digs foreign films without subtitles. He watches Three Stooges, feed his inner child.
It won’t be easy, but nothing ever is that’s worth your time.
He may go home alone tonight, but it won’t be from lack of trying.

Found out that she was a published author. Wrote some books, the titles he forgets.
He told her, I too have books at my house, but he didn’t tell her most had not been colored yet.
It won’t be easy, but nothing ever is that’s worth your time.
He may go home alone tonight, but it won’t be from lack of trying.

What’s it gonna take for him to somehow break the ice?
How’s he gonna make this work?
Only getting once chance, so he’d better get it right.
If he messes up he’s going home alone tonight.

If you visit Sparky’s you can see it, just in case you truly had some doubt.
A plaque erected underneath that Red Stripe sign,
Despite the odds the mighty KC had struck out.
It wasn’t easy, in fact it turns out it could not be done.
KC went home alone that night, and that’s the reason this song is being sung.

Going Home Alone

A dreamy, flowy hard song to get lost in, The Sundays meets Failure

A New Form of Hypnosis

Never done a techno mix in my 5 years of spinning, so I just threw this together one night. Feedback pls?

TECH[NOPE]

My cover of Failure by Breaking Benjamin.

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Instrumental by: Basu Aeppli
Original song by: Breaking Benjamin

Failure - Single

Failure

FAILURE (demo)

Shattered Crown

“Be encouraged to never give up. Get up and try again. Demolish that wall of failure with the hammer of perseverance.”

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#GTWD 368 - God-tracking is never, never, never, giving up

Artist: Arshock
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Lyrics translation:
Euthanasia X3
She sewed her lips together with a nail and rope
She touches her face and can’t find her eyes
She dies by a river of blood and pus
The moon dies behind dark clouds

Euthanasia

welcome to the pain zone/Tom Platz

"Sometimes even a cup of tea can fail" 

In a hyper-connected world, Samantha Cheng's durational performances examine failure as a generative space. In the final episode of Comic Release Joe Jowitt talks to Samantha about time, labour and the body. 

00:00: Introduction to Samantha's practice by Joe Jowitt 

1.50: Joe - "There seems to be a real tension between comedy and exhaustion in your practice. Could you start by describing what draws you to humour as a material or method?" Samantha describes her masters research on failure. 

3.30: Humour as a personal practice. Samantha asks Joe "What do you find funny? Where does your humour come from?" 

5.00: On making the video Happy Ever After (2021). The classic film trope of a happy ending. The repetitive gesture in Happy Ever After.

7.10: Joe compares the work to classic cinema devices "the fall, the loop, the failed gag". He compares the work to Bas Jan Ader and the slapstick tradition of Buster Keaton

8:13: The 'failure of narrative' in the work. Samantha describes watching it with an audience. Joe on the Sisyphean metaphor of human striving but never getting there.

9:20: Failure as a response to the problem of a highly optimised society. On failure, paranoia and contemporary digital surveillance and data harvesting. 

12:00: Humour and abstract art. Inefficiency in Samantha's practice. Samantha -  "It's not the really big failures that I'm interested in... smaller ones have more of a disruptive agency".

13:00: On the work Take a 10 (2022), work and labour. Time as money. "...making that work allowed me to kind of view what 10 minutes actually really felt like. 'Cause in a break, 10 minutes goes by so quickly doing that video felt like doing it for hours".

15:30: How does the absurd fit in your practice? Being "in on the joke". 

16:30 Western academic descriptions of humour versus origins of Samantha's own humour. Family.

17:10: How important is it to perform the work yourself? 

18:10: Social media as influence

19:30: On work Steep dreams (2024). 

21:00: Humour found in everyday life. How do you write about the big subjects? "You can start by writing about the small ones and then maybe we'll get there".

22:00: On Passengers (2023) public event, produced for Chez Derriere. 

23:30: Mass/Mess project at Window Gallery. 

24:24: On spontaneity and not over-working humour. Working in a space where humour is not welcome. 

26:00: What does it offer the viewer to ask questions about boundaries? 

26:43: Anti-ICE protests in USA using costumes. "Autocrats hate humour".

27:30: Is humour a way to stay present in the world? Weaponisation of humour. Individual sense of what's funny versus other people's interpretation. 

28:58: END

Episode 124: Samantha Cheng

Retired the beginning of 2023. Been writing music seriously for about six years. Thanks for listening - and sharing!

Dudley Anderson was born and raised in Johannesburg, South Africa. After graduating from Bible College in 1990, God opened the way for Dudley to branch out into Christian radio. As a musician and worship leader he developed a heart for Christian music, which became the main thrust of his radio work in South Africa. 

 In 1996 God called Dudley and his family to the United Kingdom where he now works as a radio programme producer and presenter. Dudley also writes a FREE weekly e-mail devotional called, GodTracker, available at surereality.net

Dudley Anderson is married to Karen-Leigh and has two adult children, Kerryn and Ryan.

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CIRCUIT CAST is a podcast produced by CIRCUIT Artist Moving Image, interviewing contemporary artists about recent exhibitions and how they approach their practice. CIRCUIT is Aotearoa/New Zealand's leading distributor of artists' moving image works. 

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Also known as ZakuNuva, ZAQU was first exposed to EDM via 2000's techno and electronica. In later years, exposure to Drum and Bass in 2012 led to his love of fast and high paced music, eventually leading him to a love of Hardcore and it's adjacent genres. One of these genres, Future Core, was his gateway to the fast paced world of Japanese Hardcore, and eventually Techcore. Inspired by artists such as Psyqui, Lapix, and Srav3r. His current inspirations and genre favorites are artists such as DJ Raisei, Mylta, DJ Shimamura, Wooden, Xaev, and Yukiyanagi.

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